chapter 14

Question 1

countermovement

Answer 1

collective action designed to prevent or reverse changes sought or accomplished by an earlier social movement

Question 2

cultural diffusion

Answer 2

process by which beliefs, technology, customs, and other elements of culture spread from one group or society to another

Question 3

global climate change

Answer 3

steady rise in earth’s average temperature as a result of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Question 4

ideology

Answer 4

coherent system of beliefs, values, and ideas

Question 5

postindustrial society

Answer 5

society in which knowledge, the control of information, and service industries are more important elements of the economy than agriculture or manufacturing and production

Question 6

reform movement

Answer 6

collective action that seeks to change limited aspects of a society but does not seek to alter or replace major social institutions

Question 7

resource mobilization theory

Answer 7

a theory of social movements that suggests that no social movement can exist unless it has an organized system for acquiring needed resources: money, labor participants, legal aid, access to media

Question 8

revolutionary movement

Answer 8

collective action that attempts to overthrow an entire social system and replace it with another

Question 9

social movement

Answer 9

continuous, large scale, organized collective action motivated by the desire to enact, stop, or reverse change in some area of society